Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-07
Books mentioned on Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
Peter Singer is one of the world's most influential living philosophers, whose ideas have motivated millions of people to change how they eat, how they give, and how they interact with each other and the natural world.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer is a foundational text in animal rights philosophy that critically examines the ethics of modern farming and meat consumption.
Discussed“there is a new and very much revised edition of Peter's classic book animal Liberation”
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Animal Liberation Now
Discussed“it is now titled animal Liberation now the definitive classic renewed and by my estimate it's about two-thirds to three-quarters new material”
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A Darwinian Left
Discussed“you once wrote a book entitled a darwinian left do you think you're becoming more or less darwinian over time”
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Hegel
Discussed“not everyone knows you've written a book on Hegel what have you learned from Hegel who is not a utilitarian right not a necessarily not a utilitarian and it's a let me just say firstly that book is written a long time ago I think in the early 1980s secondly it's a very slim book it's a 100 page book”
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Pushing Time Away
Discussed“I'm a big fan of your book pushing time away my grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Animal Liberation Now
“so that's what my focus is in animal Liberation now and and in fact a lot of my work has been aimed at that”